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I want to get the html element in Javascript. I can now use document.body.parentNode or document.getElementsByTagName("html"). But I think there should be a simple, "right" way to do it.

So, what's the right way to get the html element in Javascript?

I tried to use search engines, but I don't know how to tell them the html tag is different from any other HTML tag, so it yielded no result I wanted.

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  • Why you need to get th html tag? Commented Mar 25, 2018 at 8:50
  • use <html id='myHtml'> and document.getElementById('myHtml') Commented Mar 25, 2018 at 8:53
  • document.querySelector(':root') Commented Mar 25, 2018 at 8:55
  • @WaelAbbas It's because I was thinking about quine. Commented Mar 25, 2018 at 9:06

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You can use:

document.documentElement

which points to the document's root html node.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/documentElement

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https://stackoverflow.com/a/22873490/3134112
reference:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document.documentElement.

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I'd say document.getElementsByTagName, querySelector etc. are all "right ways" to get reference to html tag, it doesn't get simpler than that.

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